When we went to Cornell, the snow started falling in October, it didn't end until after exams were done in May, and we had to trudge uphill to class both ways. If we were lucky, our shoes would not be blocks of ice by the time we would get to class.

Classes were certainly never canceled, not even for -30 degree wind chills, and we are better off today for it; Ithaca's climate is a guaranteed character builder.